If real estate business people in Orlando say sustainability is good for business, you know it must be true.
That’s exactly what happened Thursday morning at the City of Orlando’s second Green Economy Summit. A panel of four well-established Central...

There’s a heavy-hitter lineup of business leaders speaking at Thursday morning’s Green Economy Summit in Orlando, including executives from Walmart, CBRE and Siemens.
The focus is on energy efficiency and green building. Jon Ippel, director of...

Siemens U.S. CEO Eric Spiegel said last week that Central Florida has a lot of "horsepower" that can be leveraged to create one of the leading technology communities in the U.S.However, Spiegel, a Youngstown, Ohio, native whose son attends...

Hotel rooms became pricier for buyers in the Orlando area in 2014 compared with a year earlier, according to a new report.
Sales of hotels were flat with 45 of the properties in the region changing hands both last year and in 2013, according to HREC...

Siemens Orlando offices were involved in the company’s wind divisions signing two long-term wind service agreements for wind farms in Washington State
The wind farms have 132 turbines between them, near the city of Roosevelt, WA: White Creek Wind I ...

Louise and Michael Garvey were soaking wet and covered with mud, and they wouldn't have had it any other way.
The Orange County couple were among hundreds of volleyball enthusiasts who got dirty for charity Saturday at the 22nd annual March of Dimes Mudd...

Siemens Energy’s office in Orlando is fighting trademark infringement allegations from a German company over technology that protects wind energy turbines during high winds.
Siemens has been fighting a subpoena for documents related to Siemens’ so-called...

Five things for today in Orlando and Central Florida: beware credit-card scams; Blake Bortles is Jaguars' QB; cleaning up Central Florida waterways; and more.
1. Another scam spreading throughout Florida and the nation is the mass production of...

Entrepreneurs who invented a new platform to connect teachers and classroom speakers won the recent Orlando Startup Weekend for Education, part of a national program.
The winning idea was called InspireUs. The team was led by Shahier Rahman, Orlando...

Siemens announced Thursday that All Aboard Florida has selected it to build locomotives and passenger coaches for the planned rail line from Orlando to Miami.
The trains will be built for maximum speed of 125 mph and will be assembled at Siemens’...